1. The Importance of Business Cards 56 minutes ago   permalink

Www.savingadvice.com

The other day, I was headed to our local dog park with my wife and our puppy. We were already in the car and actually backing out of the driveway when I realized that I had forgotten my business cards. I stopped the car and told my wife that I was headed back into the house to get my cards. She was a bit surprised and said, “Really? Do you ...

2. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.mobilecrunch.com

As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

3. Sow your wild oats at work 2 hours ago   permalink

Mbhunter / Mighty Bargain Hunter

Cutting costs anywhere that makes sense adds to that budgetary cushion that can be used to pay off debt, add to an emergency fund, save for college, or anything else.  One fairly easy way to do this is to reduce, or eliminate, trips to the vending machines down the hall.  The markup in our building [...]

4. College Could Get Cheaper -- or Not 2 hours ago   permalink

SmartMoney.com

College tuition could soon become a little bit cheaper – at least if President Obama gets his way. During his State of the Union address last week, President Obama announced several proposals that would make paying for college tuition within reach for more students and their families. These include a tax credit of $10,000 for students who ...

5. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market 4 hours ago   permalink

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

6. Rangel: Lawmakers writing compromise health bill 5 hours ago   permalink

News.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – Leading lawmakers hoping to revive President Barack Obama's stalled health care overhaul have started writing a compromise bill, but it's unclear when the legislation will be ready for votes, a top House Democrat said Tuesday.

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Rob / Say Anything :   Here Comes The Watered Down Health Care Bill

7. Video: Why Big Business Is Good 5 hours ago   permalink

Rob / Say Anything

Good stuff: I will say one thing. When big business gets in trouble with big government, we’ve got a problem. But as long as any given business is competing in a free market without using the government for subsidy, or paying off the government to pass taxes/regulations to hamstring its competition, I don’t care how big that business ...

8. Should Rahm Emanuel Be Fired For Saying Something Is “Retarded”? 6 hours ago   permalink

Rob / Say Anything

Sarah Palin thinks so , saying that Emanuel’s use of the term “retarded” is as bad as saying “nigger.” The newly-released mind-boggling, record-smashing $3,400,000,000,000 federal budget invites plenty of opportunity to debate the merits of incurring more and more debt that will drown the next generation of Americans.

9. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack 7 hours ago   permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

10. A recent improvement for Arabic searches 11 hours ago   permalink

A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when ...

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Matt Cutts / Matt Cutts :   Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking

11. Dispelling Blogging Myths: No One Wants to Read About What I Have to Say 9 hours ago   permalink

Trishussey.com

When I’m helping people first start blogging, one of the first objections (fears, concerns) is that no one will be interested in what they have to say. In nearly six years of blogging I have yet to find someone start a blog that didn’t have some kind of audience.

12. Is Video a Crock? It’s Certainly Not the New Holy Grail. Get Off the Screen, Dudes. 9 hours ago   permalink

ZoliErdos

Many of you will recognize the title - borrowed from " Enterprise 2.0 a Crock " Dennis Howlett. Needless to say I was quite interested in his discussion with David Terrar, who is more of an E20 fan. f Hm...hard to watch. Dennis is too loud while David is barely audible. I kept on turning the volume up and down, until I quit after a few minutes. ...

13. Airing Live On AM1100: The Say Anything Show 10 hours ago   permalink

Rob / Say Anything

Click to open stream in new window Call in at 888-598-8464. KHND AM1470 re-broadcasts the Tuesday shows on their station on Wednesdays from 11:00am - 12:00pm. Or you can always download past shows via the podcast.

14. A Recipe for Earnings 10 hours ago   permalink

Fool.com

McCormick (NYSE: MKC) is serving up some impressive cooking with four consecutive years of double-digit comparable-earnings growth. That feat seems even more impressive, considering that one of those years was 2008 -- a tough year for the market, to say the least.

15. Dream Stocks for Value Investors 10 hours ago   permalink

Fool.com

Investors are always hunting for the next big stock -- the dream stock whose price increases several times over when the market finally discovers it. It's easy to look back and discover the 10 best stocks of the past decade. But I'm more interested in the tools that can help me evaluate tomorrow's greatest companies.

16. What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back? 12 hours ago   permalink

Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips

In a quiet moment yesterday I asked my Twitter network: “what’s one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what’s stopping you from doing it now?)” The answers were quite varied – everything from redesigns, to writing E-Books, to posting more regularly to SEO optimization, to ...

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Twitoaster.com Problogger 18 hours ago feed Question: what's one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog?   —  Problogger 18 hours ago feed Question: what's one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what's stopping you from doing it now?) Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips :    What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back?

17. 10 Stocks Shaking the Market 11 hours ago   permalink

Fool.com

Some stocks are one-hit wonders, making a big splash when they first appear, then quickly fizzling into obscurity or oblivion. But for other stocks, that initial big move is only a preview for even bigger and better gains to come.

18. Don't Let the Doomsayers Keep You Poor 11 hours ago   permalink

Fool.com

The stock market and its investors have at least one thing in common: They're both prone to turn on a dime when the mood of the market changes. But whether the rally continues or stocks turn back downward, take heart -- you'll still have a chance to come out ahead in the long run.

19. How You Give Your Power Away 11 hours ago   permalink

Steve Pavlina / Steve Pavlina

One of the themes that repeatedly came up at the last Conscious Growth Workshop was the problem of giving your power away. Instead of focusing on your true desires, you erect false structures in front of your desires and then feed your power to those structures as a delay tactic. Here are some typical scenarios of [...]

20. Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer 13 hours ago   permalink

Www.mobilecrunch.com

I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I’m stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from such popular sites as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.